Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Spiritual Communion in the Time of Covid-19


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In light of the Covid-19 pandemic our diocese has just cancelled all Sunday Masses. My wife's 91 year-old father lives with us, so we had been proactive in missing last Sunday's Mass, as weird as that felt.

As a result, a friend of mine, who is always concerned about her friends' spiritual well-being, sent me a link to the daily Mass available at Word on Fire.

Here is the link to the daily Mass from Word on Fire Ministries:

https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/

Also available on that page are previous daily Masses.

In my friend's forwarded email, Bishop Barron offers the following wisdom and prayer:

"If you cannot attend Mass or join us online, I encourage you to read the Gospels, pray with your families, and join yourself to the Eucharist—the source and summit of our Catholic faith—by making an act of spiritual communion like the one recommended by Archbishop Gomez: "I wish, my Lord, to receive you with the purity, humility, and devotion with which your most holy Mother received you, with the spirit and fervor of the saints.""

Amen.

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